SwissCham is delighted to invite you to the Sino-Swiss Business Awards 2019, where Sino-Swiss excellence is celebrated. The award ceremony is an occasion to honor and celebrate the ones who have fought for and promoted the development of Sino-Swiss Business the best.

SwissCham is delighted to invite you to the Sino-Swiss Business Awards 2019, where Sino-Swiss excellence is celebrated.

For third time, SwissCham Singapore will honour Excellence in People & Skills Development. This Swiss Business Award was successfully launched in 2017 and attracted various entries from the business community in Singapore.

The escalating China-US trade war and rising protectionism continues to cloud the outlook for Chinese outbound M&A. However, China remains the deal driver for M&A in Asia as the country presents promising opportunities for local and overseas investors facilitated by national reforms, consumer behaviour upgrade, industry consolidation and transformation under the new model of economic growth.

By 2050, over 70% of the world population will be living in cities covering less than 2% of the earth’s surface. Never had city been so challenged and the trend continues to grow. And, this rise to many issues like rising inequality, environmental pollution, infrastructure access, traffic congestion, mobility, safety and health of residents are only a few examples.

US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has banned all aircraft, including emergency vehicles, from the airspace near Area 51 ahead of the ‘Storm Area 51 event’ scheduled for Friday.

Total Eren reached an agreement to enter the renewables market in Uzbekistan committing EUR 150 million to fund a 100-MW solar power plant in the Samarkand region. Negotiations concluded in less than a year from the commencements of negotiations with the government. This is not Total Eren’s first project in Central Asia, as it launched two solar projects for a joint capacity of 128 MW in Kazakhstan last year.

The Government of Rwanda and World Bank have today signed a $125m (approximately Rwf112 billion) credit agreement that will cater for the expansion of electricity services in the country.

Qatar's economy has not only, as we expected, successfully absorbed the shocks from its neighbours’ boycott two years ago, it has strengthened -- particularly in banking and foreign reserves.

Morgan & Morgan acted as counsel to Grupo Mercantil in connection with the registration of 104,760,961 common shares of its Panamanian holding Mercantil Servicios Financieros Internacional, S.A. with the Superintendency of Capital Markets of Panama for its negotiation in the secondary market, shares that have been also listed on the Panama Stock Exchange since August 22, 2019.